In 1920, Hannibal comes to Russia and falls in love with Russian culture and the circus performer Varinka. He takes her to Denmark, builds a house for her and dreams of listening to Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev with her. But Varinka doesn’t like music, and somehow they don’t find a common language, because there was supposed to be an elephant in her life, but she got a hippopotamus that ate her lover (but that’s a completely different story). The daughter of Hannibal and Varinka, according to rumors , who has psychic abilities, falls in love with a pigeon tamer! And his grandchildren, twins, choose a creative profession: Esther becomes an artist, and Olga becomes an opera diva. The twins' older sister, Philippa, is preoccupied with becoming the first female astronaut before illness claims her life. Song of Songs in the Via Palermo is a life-affirming novel about family, love and courage. Courage, having experienced a loss, still give yourself a chance for new happiness.